well with. its technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. it's eleven pm here in moscow tonight israel says it's pressing ahead with plans to build six thousand more settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem following the palestinians you have great. time magazine chooses u.s. president barack obama as twenty twelve person of the year meeting is egyptian counterpart and apple's c.e.o. . and lawmakers in moscow give preliminary approval to banning americans from adopting russian children it's in response to washington's p.x. actions russia has.

a very good evening she if you just joined us is kevin owen here at the new center israel says it will continue with plans to develop six thousand more settled homes in the west bank in east jerusalem despite international condemnation the settlement expansion seen is illegal under international law follows the palestinians upgrade of the un. the latest from tel aviv. israeli officials say that they're pressing on with plans to build six thousand new homes this defies criticism from western pa was the fear that the new one hundred waiting and hope for peace deal between israelis and palestinians you'll remember that it was just two months off he could be the question of palestinian territory at the map against him that is well made with you and me in terms of proving it to the

discipline presented in the occupied west bank as well as in east jerusalem and at that time there was international unquiet the point needs to be made that is will continues to build trust with the science of international law and as well as of united nations resolutions critics are pointing out that is also assertiveness with settlements is part of the reason why it's becoming increasingly isolated by its was not positive primarily me but that's not to say that washington is also not losing patience you're not with they. disappointed by israeli construction plan in unpredictably sharp reaction to the obama. saying the instructions one time to meet the point also needs to be made that next month generally is always improving i mean to make sense which is why i'm anal suggesting that these enormous move by the prime minister netanyahu. of trying to garner up domestic

support as well as change the reality on the ground one of the options that mitt and you know and like minded people. i'll creating a sequel as well by the house though for thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for making because this. will be in this step you see being there for the post rather than evacuate them to new areas which will be next to his way most of the international community see the settlement construction by television as illegal certainly the palestinians see it as a real obstacle to creating a viable capital in east jerusalem course the r.t.e. television u.s. president barack obama as for the second time been chosen by time magazine's person of the year been seven other contenders among them his egyptian counterpart mohamed

morsi also a pakistani women's rights activist and apple c.e.o. tim cook north korea's kim jong un who won the reader's online poll the most influential people didn't even make it onto the short list from the editors credited you can boards. it definitely looks like the time magazine's declaration of love for president obama there choosing him as a person of the year second time in a row first time they gave him the award right after the two thousand and eight election as to someone who had the most influence on global affairs although at that time he hadn't really had that tired to exercise all that influence but then president obama also received the nobel peace prize in two thousand and nine shortly after these elections although again at that point he hadn't made much p.c. in the world the award was seen as more of an advance credit than in the knowledge meant of actual achievements on the peace front later president obama went on to spend credit surging the troops in afghanistan and carrying out a regime change in libya under the arguable banner war for the sake of peace as far

as the time magazine they've always seen system that the title person of the year doesn't mean an endorsement on their part but in the case of president obama it very much looks like an endorsement the magazine calls president obama a cultural so a cultural figure of the symbol and in some ways the architect of a new america and they had a poll on their website and guess what the new leader of north korea came emerged on top of that list at the time magazine apparently north the choice of their readers hinting that the web site may have been hacked the readers shortly is also included mohamed morsi bashar al assad and jon stewart by the way the comedian came second after the north korean leader time editors have the final say on who makes it to those shortlist of the person of the year and their short list also included a pakistani girl malala yousafzai who was shot by the taliban for four advocating

for women's education but the title went to president obama as critics argue the times choice by default. seems to be less thought colored mopin than an activist from international action center is joining us on the line from new york caliber either. right time magazine saying a bomber is worthy for quote creating a more perfect union that's the reason you think the us president really deserves the title this time around. well time magazine is the voice of time warner one of the biggest media conglomerates in the united states that really just speaks for the banks and wall street and as far as they're concerned obama has done a very good job of carrying out the policies that the super rich would like to see so as far as that concerned absolutely but in terms of creating a more perfect union us society is very very unstable and stratified right now just recently there was

a war on labor unions in michigan there was this anti labor law that was passed and even around the world you know obama carried out you know the destruction of libya and he's now looking to destabilize and overthrow the syrian government so i i i absolutely don't think a more perfect union has been created but i can understand why time would want to give him an award for that because that's that's you know the image carrying out the policies that that that they would like but he didn't seem to be the people's choice partly north korea's kim jong un that was voted top in a top line read his vote what are the others his go with the readers and i won the i guess you cover this just now would it be that would it be that not less time spawn though surely no well i mean kim kim jong un i mean the fact that north korea just launched at a light into orbit that's a great achievement or an oppressed country to carry that out so you know you'd think he'd be very deserving of it for we're or for that to have happened and the north koreans have been under great you know attack their u.s. military bases in south korea their you know they've had

a lot of difficulty since the collapse of the soviet union they suffer under under you nomic gimmick sanctions and the us has been always trying to overthrow them in the stable out and for for them to be able to launch it want to lock it in rocket into orbit that shows a great deal of leadership skill on the part of kim young and he absolutely worthy of the old sword of course you know time warner time warner is not going to give that award someone who's leading a country that is set up with a socialist economic model in which they don't have big bankers and corporations like the one the ones that own time magazine so i don't think they would want to bring attention to their achievements ok if you're in a different time would be kim jong un your choice. well if i i doubt i'd ever get to be editor at time but if i were right in the award all right after this. it's obviously the second time obama has won this title but since the world was introduced in one hundred twenty seven old us president seems to terms of one it at least twice a guess the big news is no well i certainly i guess that every other president that

served two terms as has been it out will bomb it just like any other president should should get it but it is interesting i mean it is it is interesting absolutely that you know many people are very frustrated with the conditions in the united states right now and many are very upset and that with the level of home foreclosures the level of mass unemployment certainly not a more perfect union i can guarantee that things are very unstable and a lot of unrest a final thought about this obama won the nobel peace prize in two thousand and nine and the post of the it will just i'm talking about back in two thousand and eight before even the chance to do much of course in his first term as president as he won this year's award for his work do you think in the first term or is this a preemptive the previous to. well you know we can only hope that maybe the obama administration will begin to take measures to support the labor unions to you know to support the people around the world are striving for peace and up and opposing foreign intervention will just have to see unfortunately

the first four years we saw policies that were just the policies of the one percent and wall street now they were carried out sometimes with a language that didn't sound like george w. bush which you know sounded much more concerned that the policies that were carried out were policies in service of wall street so i've never met obama i don't know what he would like to do or what he's able to do but i just comment on the policies and the policies we've seen and policies that serve very effectively time warner and other banks and corporations and huge huge institutions that run the united states and make lots of money while the people are suffering kalibo pain that visceral international action center joins us on the line from new york thank you very much thank you russia's state duma has given its preliminary approval to a ban on americans adopting russian children as part of a draw last seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act mr russians on the sanctions by washington but the bills drawn both support and criticism from will make him see it causing a rift in the russian political elite is what he called piskun. it's really not

clear at the moment if this draft in its current form will indeed become an acting the law because this issue really has put russia's political elite we have heard from several ministers including the foreign minister who spoke against introducing it prime minister dmitry medvedev hasn't openly supported it but he did talk about the need to focus on improving the living conditions for children without parents here in russia the president's spokesman has also said that the evident and the russian rhetoric coming from some members of the international community the emotions of the deputies and some of them are showing quite a hard line approach these emotions are understood in the kremlin but at the same time the spokesman said that the corrections approach to this will be more reserved just a reminder that city money means he was a russian lawyer who worked for foreign investment funds he claimed to have

revealed a huge money laundering scheme allegedly involving russian officials he himself was a suspected of large scale tax evasion but died in prison before a court could make a decision on his skis magnitsky seen by many in the west or especially in the united states as a victim of various human rights violations and just recently american lawmakers passed the so-called magnitsky act which gives way for sanctioning russian officials suspected of being connected to violations of human rights but since it's not clear on what grounds the list is going to be put together and we know that some of its wars are going to be classified here in moscow this act is seen as a derogatory and the russian law and russian lawmakers have been working on what they say will be a proportionate reply adoption really has been a huge stumbling block in the relations between moscow and washington due to these so many cases of abuse and sometimes even disaster. children after they were

adopted by americans and brought to the united states for instance the story of twenty one month old. died after his adoptive father left him in a locked car on a hot day or another case one american adoptive mother put a child on a plane back to russia to get some underwear and an old obispo has been causing outrage here in russia not only the police of themselves but your lack of a proper reaction from american borders to prevent them from reoccurring including jail sentences. coming up on the program with me kevin no it's not the world's top whistleblower proposed to deliver a christmas address by the. door an embassy in london for six months but he's been keeping busy nonetheless find out for us what his christmas message could be about we talk about that shortly after this break.

the sun rises over what seems like and most forest but here in the new directions crime hundred kilometers north of life on stalk as much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mortgages both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but it's serious we find tracks have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off the xander some morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work. but in autumn it's impossible to find

human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they have twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it yes you should do it because no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone what will the people who live after as you do it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps

that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. we speak your language they will not advance. your music programs and documentaries in spanish more matters to you breaking news it will turn into bangalore stories. for you here. to try to teach spanish to find out more visit i too early. morning news today violence is once again flared up. saying these are the images for world peace and seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are

all day. or against but i've been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six months julie the sun she's not been idle he hasn't let up on his wiki leaks works even published a book too and did on thursday the whistleblower set to announce his plans for twenty thirteen as he prepares to deliver a christmas address is r.t. sarah for. it's been six months to the day since julian a song thought refuge behind the doors of the ecuadorian embassy it was a bid to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations that he continues to refuse to travel to sweden because if it will be extradited to the u.s. america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including on

the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour around the globe acted within fifty six months the t.v. and we've had him publish a book we seem concerned with his health we seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal experience of into the city and of course the ongoing protests victories in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks web site in the next couple of days judy the sun is expected to just as christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case too little sound to be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is that remains relatively unknown in the dramas unfolding over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be predictable it's a little bit worse a little. chilly in the sound running for the australian senate and forming

his own wiki leaks political party loose will be the next that sort of. thank you to every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story. dede as we were for the last twelve months to spain has warned it has the legal power to stop cuts alone either from holding a referendum on its independence the deputy prime minister spoke just hours before the region's process produce parliamentary majority side of the agreement calling for a public vote on self-determination to be held in twenty forty let's talk about this with a spokesperson for the european partnership of independence a group supporting regions of nations across europe who want self-government and want to go it alone for want of a better word hi there and how likely is it that this proposed referendum will go ahead do you think. oh yes it's definitely going to go ahead finally cattle and so we are going to vote for it in that in that sort of catalonia

and that they will crack the piece where it peaceful way yes so we always want to thank klaidman work it's been a long struggle for cards alone even striving for independence with its own language and culture what's given it this recent motivation this recent boost what did it. well it actually all come from a grassroots movement that a bass come from that i'm a nation of civil society from a from the city sense of course i don't know which from two thousand and nine to two thousand and eleven show date it's a good day should buy outs of organizing a popular referendum for the whole principality of catalonia like more than five hundred fifty why they voted yes because on it that's allowed for a plus it's a scenario i'm not allowed to tap debates about south of the nation thanks human rights universal rights he malkuth for those rights also allows us to explain to people about the chemical fire and about all the benefits that i believe that but

that's when you know they would be difficult so these are canarios just creates a verbalized on the whole been majority for independence that there has been showing in the last show ryssdal was actually elsewhere in the last elections was now in the parliament a fact lonia we do have a majority of members of the parliament which are for indefinite that and they're willing to call for this referendum and although some inherent dangers here though i'm thinking the euro zone's in a deep ongoing financial crisis kudlow is not used about aging its own affairs as a sovereign state is there a danger that it may not be able to survive if it breaks away from spain no access helen has a rich country we have two thousand two hundred thousand millions g.d.p. and actually not quite right catalonia is used for much more centuries to manage for itself as a fake us we were before the creation of the spaying of the spanish that's only

three hundred centuries so we are more human these are tough times extremely tough times and you know when you do interact with the world around your course. of course and that's why the question really is how we can how we actually manage to be so productive and so active economically being inside the spanish state that it's really a question because imagine without the tax burden that catalonia suffers because we are in fact the spanish just think how well we will do how beneficial that would be for europe you know we can release doubt we will survive yes when you compare this to what is happening in the u.k. rescorla in the u.k. is a lot of scotland old independence referendum in twenty fourteen spain no determined determined to bangkok loney of molding why is spending so steadfast is it because cars alone it is affluent as you make it out to be the lego world that that definitely one of the factors spanish maybe actually they are the ones afraid to be

alone without the economical input of catalonia but the one that cuts plants we are also the thurmont to make it all work for everybody because we're not against the spanish we don't want to spain to fail we just out in favor of catalonia and not to fail with that's inside of and so we i'm sure was how alliances commercial alliances so nothing happened to sustain but that could be a fast i'm not a fast so we do have to bear in mind that the spain only finished its dictatorship in seventy five one hundred twenty five and the transition that the start at the thought of the start that the democrats the democracy in the spain because that dictate to died so they the deficit the democratic deficit that spain been has we understand he speaks so maybe english actually realize that this just is just it's just better to just deal with democracy and deal with it we love peaceful and

democratic process of indefinite because nothing wrong with that thank you for being with a southerner archivist spokesperson for the european publishing for independence. thank you supporters of russian football champions it's in petersburg so they only want white and non gay players in this squad chalking that to the club's management comes as russia gears up of course to host the biggest international football tournament on the planet the twenty eight world cup the team's largest fan club stressing their demands are about respecting longstanding traditions not a birth they say discrimination is rich of import fleet takes an in-depth look at this provocative development. i don't want any african players black players or latin american players and to be honest i'm going that's an absolute joke i mean because in it fans i think forget probably the best player was born in venezuela which is latin america danny is probably the best russian inboard has come into play in the russian premier league over the last ten years or so and france is a bear manifesto was correct. but this play i mean they all

say that they want to give preference. to would want to do that it would be much cheaper but back to. russia and. brazil even top nations like argentina that you have to play to come. in and have players from just romantic story madrid import player because this is way before or has grown and has developed i think what the problem is was a group of around one hundred two hundred hard calls in it and spoke fans who are racist and you get this around the world you'll get this in the u.k. you get this in italy you'll get this in germany you just can't change them for education for whatever they will say the same the problem is you have a few thousand teenagers who go on to the matches and they don't know what they're doing so they copy what these. races fans are doing and what the club needs to do is try to educate these teenagers. the clubs the russian premier league the russian

football union they need to get special players involved because teenagers will look up to these players and try and get it's and the racism campaigns going. coming up after the break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa maidish to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able

to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients and in their shattered lives. when professing designed first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies life both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted today it was out of center nowadays seeking surgery focus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patients return to us with a leg like the meal quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in

order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries abound in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states . financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought peace washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertises one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average if i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation

most mad at russian girl who found he's a regional hype quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now it's like oh you're so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. you leave me. alone when welcome to cross talk i'm peter lloyd now there's no greater gift than the gift of giving as the u.s. deals with his great fiscal woes should tax cuts be voter even denying to non-profits and charities.